Andrea Pirringer
How to believe simply
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Foreword
Dear Readers,
more than 40 years of my life are behind me now. Two thirds of this time I have - like many of you - spent with searching for God. It was a path with many twists - sometimes surprises -, setbacks, questions, doubts and obstacles. There have been periods of enthusiasm and resignation, idling and rising again.
In the last 15 years my faith became more intense, my personality riper, my thoughts clearer and I began to define my goals more precisely.
Just recently I had the feeling to be finally arrived “at the top”; to finally be able to stand on the summit as after a long hike.
Inwardly, I felt relief, liberation and joy. I thought to myself: faith's actually so easy!
The light and warmth of God shines around me today as the spring sun. All the fears and doubts are gone. God is my best friend - and that's wonderful!
This way to God, that has taken so many years, could have been also significantly reduced. The luck to feel the presence of God, I could have had much earlier. - Not God builds walls, but we ourselves obstruct the access to Him. – In order to recognize this, you need to be honest to yourself, you require sincere contrition and deep humility.
How easy it is to believe in God, would like to be shown in this book - so that you, dear readers, can save yourself some detours, and can get to your destination faster!
The author
August 24, 2014, Feast of Our Lady of Foya, (Foy in Dinant, Belgium -. “Notre Dame de la Foi”. Foi is the French word for "faith".)
(A copy of the miraculous image is located in the Jesuit Church of Innsbruck/Austria. The statue is there worshiped as "Mother of Mercy".)
God and creation
Imagine, you are out in the wild, in an area in which has never previously been a man. It is a primeval landscape: there are no roads and paths, no houses, no deforestation, no voices of people and no noise from machinery.
Only the rustling of the wind, the noise of a brook, now and then a screeching bird, the chirping of crickets and animal sounds are heard. There is a deep peace to the country. Everything takes its course, quietly, in a very specific way.
The air is clear, filled with all sorts of fragrances which flow from the meadows. The grass grows waist high - no one has ever mowed it. The trees reach up to 30 meters - no one has ever trimmed them.
You are sitting in a clearing on a fallen tree trunk and letting the view into the distance; it is summer, warm and friendly mood. You are lying down on the floor and looking at the sky. Bees are buzzing around you. A beetle is crawling on your arm …
Suddenly contrails, which cut the radiant blue, attract your attention. - And you remember that the world is populated by people ...
Nature is a wonderful thing. Creation is a true paradise. - "And God saw that it was good." Yes, there is something incredibly great and beautiful. But that wasn’t sufficient for God. He wanted to share this beautiful country. So He created man and placed him in this peaceful landscape.
What happened after that, we all know that over thousands of years, man has created a cultural landscape: mowed and trimmed, plowed, built, sown, harvested, fenced and divided. And soon afterwards, there came the strife. There was controversy over the question: what is mine and what is your? Men quarreled over land boundaries, the neighbor's goods. Yes, even the neighbor's wife suddenly became interesting.
By greed and envy arose disputes, later wars, exploitation, plunder, pride and hatred. The progress of technology was used to develop ever more precise weapons with even more destructive power. Only for the purpose to fight and kill further.
Today there is much suffering and hardship, resources are scarce, the environment is destroyed and some areas are no longer habitable.
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